Executive Board
The Executive Board advises the Dean and participates in shaping the future of UCLA TFT. Comprised of entertainment industry and community leaders, the Board partners with the school to implement curricular initiatives, enhance financial support and raise UCLA TFT’s public profile.
Jim Berk
CEO
Simon Wiesenthal Center / Moriah Films
Joseph A. Calabrese
Global Chair Entertainment, Sports, Media
Latham & Watkins
Susan Cartsonis
Producer
Sanford R. Climan
CEO
Entertainment Media Ventures
Francis Ford Coppola
Executive
American Zoetrope
MFA 1967
Donald De Line
Producer
De Line Pictures
BA 1980
Donna Deitch
Filmmaker
MFA 1976
Cecilia deMille Presley
Director & Trustee
Cecil B. De Mille Foundation
Emilio Diez Barroso
CEO
NALA Investments, LLC
Channing Dungey
Chairman & CEO
Warner Bros. Television Group
BA 1991
Moctesuma Esparza
CEO
Maya Entertainment
BA 1971, MFA 1973
Eric Esrailian
Emmy-Nominated Producer & Entrepreneur
UCLA
MPH 2006
Hani Farsi
Founder & Chairman
Mohamed S. Farsi Foundation
Dan Fellman
Former President
Warner Bros. Distribution Corporation
Jason Forest
Executive Producer
Rob Friedman
Chairman & CEO
Ascendant Entertainment
Clinch Fuentes
Founder, President, and Chairman of the Board
Chance to Excel
Co-Founder and Vice President of Northwest Vocal Arts, based in Portland, Oregon
Jeff Goldstein
President, Global Distribution
Warner Bros. Pictures
Peter Guber
Chairman & CEO
Mandalay Entertainment
Todd Hawkins
Executive Vice President
The Hawkins Company
BA 2007
Ken Hertz
Partner
Hertz, Lichtenstein & Young
JD 1984
Reginald Hudlin
Writer, Director, Producer
Hudlin Entertainment
Shamus Rahman Kahn
Willard Thorp Professor of Sociology and American Studies
Princeton University
Andy Kaplan
Co-Founder & Co-Owner
KC Global Media
BA 1981
Frank Marshall
Producer/Director
The Kennedy/Marshall Company
1968
Laurel Miranda
Development Chair
Branch Services
Scott Sanders
President
Scott Sanders Productions
Martin Scorsese
Filmmaker, Founder & Chair
The Film Foundation
Celine Shimizu
Dean and Distinguished Professor
UCLA TFT Member, Ex Officio
Brad Silberling
Writer, Director
MFA 1987
Harry Sloan J.D
Chairman and CEO
Silver Eagle Acquisition Corp
BA 1971
Michelle Sobrino-Stearns
CEO & Group Publisher
Variety
Darren Star
Writer, Producer
Darren Star Productions
BA 1983
Nadja Swarovski
Chairperson
Swarovski Foundation
Elena Torres
Actress, Writer, Comedian
Bruce Vaughn
Chief Creative Officer
Walt Disney Imagineering
Elizabeth Reiko Kubota Whitney
UCLA TFT Alumna
Deborah Widener
Former President
General Electric Capital Markets
Richard Wolpert
Co-founder and CEO
HelloTech
BA 1985